Medical Research in Wartime

Medical ethics and human rights in wartime.

Rosie the Riveter's Wartime Medical Records.

On October 24, 2000, the Rosie the Riveter World War II/Home Front National Historical Park was established in Richmond, CA to commemorate in a substantial way the wartime women workers in the shipyards. A review of the 1942-1945 published case reports from the medical records of women who worked in the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, found that the women who helped build ships for the war effort...

American Psychologists and Wartime Research on Germany, 1941-1945

During World War II, behavioral scientists working for several U.S. agencies—principally the Office of Strategic Services, but also the Office of War Information, the Strategic Bombing Survey, and military authorities—advanced personality and social psychology through their investigations of the nature of Nazism, Adolf Hitler's personality, the German national character, and Germans' reactions ...

Group Teaching in Wartime

The coming of war has forced us to rediscover the merits of many discarded ways of living in all departments of life. In the realm of education, the emergency improvisation of home teaching units took us back temporarily to the days of the old dame school, but now that the first few weeks of initial disorganization which brought these to life have passed, the experience has left some of us with...

Occupational Therapy in Wartime

On the first day of this war, I listened to the conversation of a colonel and a member of the Indian Civil Service. Both were retired men whose whole lives had been spent in unselfish service to others, who had brought particularly able minds to each problem that had occurred in their work. The colonel had started as a youngster in the South African War and his life work had been governed by hi...